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It’s been a month since our team has taken part in a friendly corporate quest aimed at team building. Finally, we got our pictures and can now share the details of this awesome event. If you think, that IT-guys are too geeky to participate in active outdoor activities – you are far away from being right. Check out how it was.

Summer brings more time and space for fun, so we at Sitevalley decided to spend some time on creating additional space for us and our customers to have fun. As a result, we welcome you at our official Facebook page. Follow our most recent events; take part in serious and funny discussions; meet fellow bloggers and forum runners; find new business partners and clients.

Contribute

The page is only being developed now, so we would like you to leave your feedback on what sections you would like to see there. If you are an existing customer, you should definitely have something to say, after those weeks, months or years you’ve been with us. If you are only looking into purchasing a hosting account, you may have some questions, and our Facebook page is the great channel to communicate with us directly.

Meet Our Team

If you used to know us by signatures and discuss only support issues, you are going to have a perfect chance to have a less formal conversation with us. We are open for any dialogues and discussions. You can PM us for something personal or start topics to involve both us and other fans into a discussion.

Share Your Moods and Knowledge

Do you like posting on walls? Well, we do, so you are welcome to post links and videos you would like to share. We are sometimes asked for an example of a site, built via this or that script. Our privacy policy, however, does not allow us to share such information. You on the other hand, as a site owner can do that freely, so if you are fine with it – feel free to post a link to your site. Apart from letting the others know what particular software can be used for site building, you may expect attract new visitors, new clients and more traffic.

Enjoy

The word “fan” is one letter away from “fun”. Being SiteValley fan is having a lot of fun. Await promos, quizzes and contests and get ready to them – everyone is invited – take part and win some very cool prizes.

Live your life in SiteValley style – we give home for your websites, while your website is a home for your ideas. Join us to share your ideas and learn something new from your fellow-fans, bring your friends and relatives with you. World of hosting is not only coding, debugging and optimization – everyone who owns a website becomes a part of the Internet – a part of a system and already a culture of the new generation. What would it be, if everyone suddenly quit? We at SiteValley are striving for making the Internet a better place. If you share our beliefs, let us do that together.

Do you run a website for a company or a corporation? Or maybe you are just interested in registering another domain with a popular extension? Whatever it is going to be, you will be pleased to know that Sitevalley.com is now offering .CO domain registration for only $30/year.

.CO is a new country-code top level domain (ccTLD) for Colombia, which has burst into market as it was promoted as a domain, perfectly fitting for companies, corporations and e-commerce projects, one may run. Such promotion is obvious, as “Co” is a usual shortening for such businesses. Now this TLD has all the chances of becoming widely accepted among internet audience, as it is not only meaningful, but might also be a good alternative to the famous .com. With over 25 year presence on the market, .com has left very low chance to register a catchy and memorable domain name.

Another concern is URL shortening. Since .CO Internet S.A.S. has officially launched it on the 20th of July, 2010, trademark holders have already reserved their brand domain names. Many of those did not actually register the same name with the new extension, but used abbreviations or shortenings. Thus Overstock.com got another name of o.co, while Twitter secured a t.co domain as a part of their service.

With Sitevalley.com besides paid registration you may even get a .CO domain for free, if you signup for our Small Business Hosting package with annual billing cycle. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Don’t hesitate to contact our Support Team. E-mail us to sales@sitevalley.com now to learn more details and dispel any doubts you may have.

Most of you are likely to have already heard something about Verisign planning to increase fees for .com and .net domain registration. New fees are to come into force on July, 1 2010 and are going to make 7% increase for .com domain registration and 10% increase for .net domains. The official announcement was published by Verisign a half a year ago – on the 17th of December, 2009 – but it seems to come into consumers’ concern only now.

Impact And Reaction

Though Verisign is not a domain registrar, they managed to prompt global price increase among their investors, sponsoring registrars and their resellers. However, if the prices announced by Verisign are expected to be $7.34 for .com domains and $4.65 for names with .net TLD, some domain name registrars have already sent .com/.net prices up to $15.

There is, however, some good news. Some companies started newsletter delivery with an offer to renew domain names registration for the old price and introduced discounts for new domain registrations. Such discounts are going to reduce the cost to even a smaller rate, than the current cost of the domain.\

Beside this, the price increase did not cause the chain reaction, so the price for other TLDs is not going to be changed. This means that anyone will be able to register domain names with different extensions for a lesser price.

What about SiteValley prices for domain registrations?

We at SiteValley.com have officially decided to keep our fees on the current level, so the .net/.com price is going to stay $12 as it was. Additionally, we are not going to cut any plans of free domains provision. If you are intended to get a stable and reliable hosting solution, you should definitely take a look at our Shared Hosting plans, any of which comes with a free domain, including .com and .net extensions.

Summertime is coming, finals are over and we have reasons to believe that you may get more free time, which you would like to dedicate to the development of your own web project. In this regard Sitevalley.com is introducing a new coupon code “schoolisout”, which will provide you with a 15% discount on all our shared hosting plans. This is a limited time offer, so make sure you come up with the decision and sing up till June, 30 2010.

The discount is to cover our Newbie hosting, Blog hosting, Forum hosting, All Inclusive and Business Hosting packages. All of them come with a free domain and have no limits on bandwidth.

More details can be learned from our Support Team via a live chat or send an email to sales@sitevalley.com.